Fresh From the Garden

esh from the Garden Genesis 3:1-15 Christmas reminds us of our problem: -Sin Now the serpent was more than anyto ofthe the wild When the woman that the fruit ofsaid the tree was good for The woman said tosaw the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the “You will not surely die,” thecrafty serpent woman. animals the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, food God and pleasing tobut the eye, and also for gaining trees in the garden, God did say, must not eat fruit “For knows that when you eat of‘You itdesirable your eyes will be “Did God really say, ‘You must notit. eat from any tree in theto wisdom, she took and ate She also gave some from the and tree that issome in the middle of the garden, and you opened you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” garden’?” her husband, her, and he ate it. must not touchwho it, orwas youwith will die.” Genesis 3:1-5 Christmas reminds us of our problem: -Sin God with …for sinned and fall you short ofopened, the woman, gloryand of and God Then the eyes ofconsequences both of them were they And arrives Iall willhave put enmity between and the realized naked; they fig your leaves betweenthey your were offspring and so hers; hesewed will crush head, and you will heel.” together andstrike madehiscoverings for themselves. Genesis3:23 3: 8-14 Romans 3:6 3:15 Christmas reveals our prescription: - A Savior Therefore . . .and He isshe the the gave atoning Lord birth himself to sacrifice herwill frstborn, give for our youasins, ason. sign: She and thewrapped not virgin only will conceive himforinours cloths andbut and give also placed birth fortothe him a son, sins in aand manger, of the will call whole because himworld. Immanuel. there was no guest room available for them. Isaiah 1 John7:14 2:2 Luke 2:7 Christmas renders our salvation: - The Gospel - As says,the “Anyone whohe believes in ForScripture God so loved world that gave his him will never be put towhoever shame.”believes . . . for, in him one and only Son, that “Everyone who calls on the namelife. of the Lord shall not perish but have eternal will be saved.” Rom. 10:11-12 John 3:16 esh from the Garden Genesis 3:1-15